After that, Yang Yuting also stood from the perspective of a female player, briefly recounting her game process and the so-called "optimal strategy" that Lu Xinyi described to her.

The ridiculous achievement of effortlessly gaining 3 likes in the first hour left Zheng Jie stunned.

Lin Sizhi also introduced his strategy of buying likes and briefly explained why multiple small denomination vouchers are a better choice than a single large denomination voucher.

Zheng Jie suddenly realized: "No wonder, Lawyer Lin, you got so many likes in the first 4 hours, and you didn't have much visa time when leaving the game; turns out you spent it in advance!

"It just feels a bit wasteful to spend money like this."

Cai Zhiyuan shook his head: "It's not wasteful, you could even say this is the best initial strategy for male players.

"Ensuring your survival in the game is more important than earning visa time.

"Of course, most players can't foresee that the killing rules will be updated later, but since the game eventually indiscriminately gives visa time to male players, and the early game revolves around likes as the core mechanism, exchanging visa time for likes is the most reliable strategy.

"Zhong Yuanyuan's intention was to create an imbalance between male and female players with the 30,000 visa time, fueling conflicts.

"But male players can also turn this around by using that disparity for mutual benefit, forming a stable cooperation strategy with female players for long-term gains.

"This kind of interest-based cooperation is far more stable than cooperation based on morality or trust.

"In this game, finding a reliable, stable meetup partner basically puts you in an invincible position.

"It's okay to give some benefits to female players, because the final 30,000 minutes of returns are real, even if there's only one minute left, it's a profit. The key is whether the benefits can bring enough returns."

Xu Tong questioned: "But this method can only be used by male players, right?"

Cai Zhiyuan thought seriously for a moment, then shook his head: "No, female players can use it too, just with some differences in the details.

"What do you think, how did Lu Xinyi get that 100% likes rate? All by deceit? I guess not."

The crowd looked at Zheng Jie, then nodded.

It's obvious that the kind of trickery Lu Xinyi initially displayed could only fool newcomers like Zheng Jie, and has no effect on smarter veterans.

Cai Zhiyuan continued: "The so-called 'optimal strategy' that Lu Xinyi told Yang Yuting, I believe at least half of it is lies, you don't really believe it, do you?

"She's just fooling other female players, herself most likely won't act that way.

"When most female players are bluffing to waste visa time, someone like Lu Xinyi is likely to do the opposite.

"For instance, after meeting a male player, she might actively choose 'split the bill' or even 'I pay'.

"And then propose that she always covers the room fee in exchange for stable matches and mutual likes with the male player.

"What male players accomplish with 1000 minutes of visa time, female players can achieve with a 200-minute room fee."

Yang Yuting realized: "Ah, I see, that's the trick!

"She lowered the overall moral standards of female players but elevated herself to a moral high ground!

"By actively covering the room fee, even though she's doing the same as male players, it's enough to make male players feel grateful.

"It's all part of a ploy!"

Zheng Jie was a bit confused: "Ah? Does that mean Lu Xinyi didn't cheat money?"

Cai Zhiyuan shook his head: "Not necessarily. Someone like her can't possibly not cheat money; just that her methods aren't so clumsy.

"She could completely use both strategies: actively paying and swapping likes to find stable partners as a safety net, while also occasionally matching with new players to scam money.

"Adopting different strategies for different players to maximize benefits.

"Within the first 4 hours, she's gaining likes as well as money.

"Of course, doing this requires having a good eye for people."

Zheng Jie was flabbergasted: "…Someone like her is thriving in this game, practically undefeatable!

"Hey, wait, Lawyer Lin, didn't you encounter Lu Xinyi?

"I've been wondering what it would be like if the two of you met in the interview room…"

Wang Yongxin was somewhat helpless: "What do you think?

"Both of them had stable partners very early on, encountering each other would be a rare occurrence, right?"

Lin Sizhi nodded: "Yes, I determined three stable like-buyers very early, so I didn't need to match with others.

"Meeting Lu Xinyi would require thinking, and there's no need for that.

"I still prefer dealing with players who have simpler minds."

Li Renshu thoughtfully concluded: "So, analyzing from a god's perspective, the 'Matchmaking Game' was indeed simulating the matchmaking mechanism, but in reality, it is an outright murder game, full of malice.

"The Imitator not only hides rules, provokes hatred among players, leading them to kill each other, but also maliciously allows illegal team formations in the game; this is practically a premeditated massacre.

"Before entering the game, Walkway said the game's type was 'Screening'; I'm somewhat unclear about what exactly it's screening?"

Yang Yuting thought carefully: "Maybe because it didn't serve the 'screening' purpose well, that's why Walkway's evaluation of it isn't high?"

Jiang He was puzzled: "But similar games should be designed by many Imitators together, right? Shouldn't Walkway select the optimal scheme?"

Li Renshu shook her head: "I don't know.

"We have no knowledge of Walkway's criteria for selecting games, nor do we understand the process of Walkway assigning tasks to Imitators.

"Let's not make blind guesses; overthinking might mislead us."

Wang Yongxin calmly said: "I think you shouldn't interpret the word 'screening' too narrowly.

"Just like Walkway's defined 'sinners' or 'judgment', they are broad concepts; even those who haven't broken any law get dragged into judgment games.

"Screening could also be indiscriminate, random selection.

"Just like when there are too many resumes during large company interviews, they might even randomly discard a portion of them, saying, 'Luck is also a part of ability.'

"Just like a natural disaster causing a species to go extinct, that's also a form of screening.

"Walkway's so-called 'Screening Game', aims to eliminate a portion of people, but the specific criteria for elimination can be very dynamic or even absurd.

"You shouldn't develop unnecessary misunderstandings about Walkway due to previous S Rating games, thinking it always upholds fairness and justice.

"How could that be possible?

"For Walkway, imitating-human-nature S Rating games by Imitators are certainly good, but B or even C Rating garbage games made by Imitators aren't completely unusable.

"Walkway's attitude towards Imitators is extremely tolerant, even indulgent.

"If players are all killed, new ones can be recruited, if Imitators are all killed, new ones can be chosen, for Walkway, even if certain games come across as extremely unfair, it doesn't matter, like a disaster in the real world, who'd speak logic with you?

"If you encounter it, just consider yourself unlucky, who can you blame for bad luck?

"The truly strong must adapt to any cruel environment or unfair rules; survival of the fittest.

"For Walkway, as long as there's enough players, as long as there are enough Imitators, even if the rules aren't that fair, as long as the general direction isn't too off, the final outcome will still be excellent.

"So, I think this 'Screening Game' can be seen as an unfair multi-standard elimination, or as some kind of trial by Walkway.

"Again, don't think about fairness; think about the optimal survival strategy."

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